John B. Lawson was the man who headed up the "Aeronutronic Division" of the Ford Motor Company, which occupied the area of Newport Beach between MacArthur Boulevard and Jamboree Road that is now marked by Ford Road. Lawson won a number of awards during the decades he spent in the area, including Newport Beach's Man of the Year in 1973, the Orange County Press Club's Man of the Year for 1965 and Orange County Manager of the Year for 1965. Lawson is the founder of Project 21, which campaigned to guide Orange County toward managed growth.

RUTH CARROLL MACDOUGALL McCARTIN passed away on November 4, 2012 in Dana Point, California. She was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota on December 17, 1925, attended Redwood Falls schools and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1947. After graduation, she worked in department store advertising in St. Paul, Minnesota; taught first grade in Quantico, Virginia; worked in newspaper display advertising in Costa Mesa, California; and...

ON THE AGENDA The Newport Beach City Council will consider these items at its meeting tonight: YACHT BERTHING A long-anticipated matter will finally come before the council at their study session today when city leaders consider how to crack down on boats docked illegally and unsafely in the harbor. Many commercial marinas and yacht brokerages in the city are in violation of fire safety codes. Those codes require that boats not be stacked together and that they are tied up in a way that allows them to exit quickly and safely in case of a fire.

A wild and crazy summer day on choppers, a.k.a. motorcycles, brought out the Orange County Noble Vikings, a men's charitable and social fraternity based in Newport Beach. A group of 40 Vikings, some with their wives and some with girlfriends, came roaring into Newport Beach on 26 motorcycles and a fleet of limousines -- now that's the O.C. we know and love and talk about -- following a Sunday jaunt that began at Cook's Corner. The gents and their ladies made quite the spectacle, traveling in formation from Cook's Corner to the Swallow's Inn in San Juan Capistrano.

Young Chang The work of Edward Sheriff Curtis is so common, people may not realize they know it. Some experts say the late artist's portraits of Native American tribe members are largely responsible for how we look at Indians today. Though experts disagree about how accurate he was in his photo depictions, Curtis' intention was clear: to record the vanishing customs and traditions of Native American life. From 1905 to 1930, Curtis took more than 2,000 photographs of domestic environments and architecture during various trips across the country.

Jake Knapp will admit he didn't make the best of decisions back in late February. The former Estancia High golf standout is not one to sit around. He played in a pick-up basketball game at UCLA, where he is on the golf team. Unfortunately he suffered an injury, a small fracture to a tiny bone in his left wrist. It was tough to sit out for two months, but he considered himself lucky the injury wasn't worse. He nearly flipped when jumping for a rebound and landed on his wrist as he was trying to break his fall, he said.

RUTH CARROLL MACDOUGALL McCARTIN passed away on November 4, 2012 in Dana Point, California. She was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota on December 17, 1925, attended Redwood Falls schools and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1947. After graduation, she worked in department store advertising in St. Paul, Minnesota; taught first grade in Quantico, Virginia; worked in newspaper display advertising in Costa Mesa, California; and...

ORANGE COUNTY, CA – The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation will honor two prominent Southern California business leaders for their patriotism and professional achievements, as well as for their contributions to the country and their local communities. The awards will be presented by the evening's military guest of honor — Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James T. Conway — at the 27th Annual Marine Scholarship Ball on October 17th at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point.

A wild and crazy summer day on choppers, a.k.a. motorcycles, brought out the Orange County Noble Vikings, a men's charitable and social fraternity based in Newport Beach. A group of 40 Vikings, some with their wives and some with girlfriends, came roaring into Newport Beach on 26 motorcycles and a fleet of limousines -- now that's the O.C. we know and love and talk about -- following a Sunday jaunt that began at Cook's Corner. The gents and their ladies made quite the spectacle, traveling in formation from Cook's Corner to the Swallow's Inn in San Juan Capistrano.

El Morro editorial missed valid points The Daily Pilot's Feb. 13 editorial titled "Two doses of unimpressive from Chuck DeVore" ignores several very important points about the assemblyman's plan for El Morro Village. The most important of these is that the state already has several beachfront properties slated for conversion to public use but lacks the money to develop them. A prime example of this is the Monarch Beach mobile home park near my home in Dana Point.

ON THE AGENDA The Newport Beach City Council will consider these items at its meeting tonight: YACHT BERTHING A long-anticipated matter will finally come before the council at their study session today when city leaders consider how to crack down on boats docked illegally and unsafely in the harbor. Many commercial marinas and yacht brokerages in the city are in violation of fire safety codes. Those codes require that boats not be stacked together and that they are tied up in a way that allows them to exit quickly and safely in case of a fire.